EMBRACING AND FORGIVING OURSELVES

After a person has broken free from addiction one of the hardest things to do is to forgive, while forgiving others may be aa difficult part of forgiving the hardest part is forgiving the person we see in the mirro, no matter what led to the addiction or how it came about, the hardest thing to do is let go, no matter how we explain our problem and we’re encouraged to understand that its not all our fault, secretly we still blame ourselves, whenever things go wrong we hate ourselves, we assume its our fault, we take the blame for others, we take the blame for how people treat us, we feel that somehow the fact that we’ve once been addicted makes us somewhat defective. It took a while for me to realize that it wasn’t and isn’t true. The reason I felt this way is because the devil is a deceiver, the one who gives a false impression he’d have us believe every evil that has happened in our lives and everything we’ve done wrongly were entirely our faults. Its not true, if we bask in the understanding of that and understand how much glory would be revealed in us after this phase is over we’ll endure this phase of freedom with so much joy and perseverance, remember Jesus did not do anything to warrant the cross but right after the cross was resurrection and glory, there is surely glory at the end of every struggle we face in Christ.

  A few points to note here are

·         HATE YOUR SIN BUT DON’T HATE YOURSELF: you can hate the sin as a matter of fact God hates sin and as his own we need to hate sin, I mean total hatred for sin, however in the process endeavor not to hate you as well as the sin, you are not the sin the sin is not you, don’t hold on to the identity sin gives you. You are not sin God doesn’t hate you, he hates the sin.

·         ADMIT YOUR ISTAKES BUT NEVER ASSUME THAT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG ITS YOUR FAULT: admit you’re wrong whenever you go wrong but never assume that everything that goes wrong around you, somehow has something to do with you. Honestly get over yourself, you made a mistake once ehn ehn, funny thing is everyone has made their own fair share of mistakes in life just some of us have learnt to let go and if you’ll leave them the chance they’ll look down their noses on you like their life has been all good. But today let go of your mistake and begin to do things right, the past is passed look ahead.

·         DROP EVERY MENTAL BONDAGE: my papa told me this earlier today, he said to drop every mental bondage, what is mental bondage, it simply all the devil uses to hold you back, he said sin is like making a purchase from the market of darkness and picture of you is taken while you’re buying. Now even when you’ve burnt whatever it is you bought from the market of darkness he’ll bring the picture back and if you let him he’ll hold you back with the picture that was taken of you long ago. We all have pictures from our childhood, that doesn’t mean we’re still the same child we were in the picture.

·         LOVE YOURSELF: no matter how much you have or think you have failed. Forgive you and hug yourself and say I’ll do better next time and you will, be confident, you only teach others to love you by how much you love yourself, if you see yourself as a failure no matter how highly people might think of you, you’ll always seem to be a failure and won’t feel any better.

·        PILE IT ALL ON THE MASTER: 1 peter 5: says “Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you”(the message bible), put all of your burdens on Jesus express all you feel, let him know all you worries and fears, give it all to him and bask in the euphoria of the knowledge of the fact that you’re kept and have all you worries in the hand of the greatest who would not only help, but take you through it all.

Xoxo Busayo